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The Analectic Magazine - Softcover

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Synopsis

"The Analectic Magazine". This issue (Part 1 of 4, 1815) presents a curated miscellany of literary criticism, biography, travel writing, and cultural commentary. It compiles short critical pieces, biographical notices, and reviews spanning poetry, drama, history, science, and more. Contents include: Rejected Addresses and related burlesques (comic parodies of contemporary poets and plays); Price’s Retrospect of Mahommedan History (a detailed critical review of Major David Price’s three-volume history of Islam); The American War and the Orders in Council (Edinburgh Review) on Anglo-American relations; Original Review: Paine’s Works (a biographical and critical study of Thomas Paine); Biographical Notice of Captain Isaac Hull (naval biography); Poetry (selected pieces such as The Belvidere Apollo); Memoirs de la Princesse de Bareith (review). The issue also offers biographical and travel material, theatre criticism, science notes, and official naval documents (Appendix). Thematic throughlines include public virtue versus private vice, limits of historical criticism, national identity amid wartime, and the relation of literature, travel, and science to culture and power. The magazine maps early 19th-century Atlantic culture from Europe to America, with attention to abolition, empire, and literary fame.

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